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ACADEMIC VISITORS
Distinguished Ordway Visitors
(2003-2004)
The following leading mathematicians
accepted our invitations to
visit the School during the
current academic year under
the Distinguished Ordway Visitors
Program. The program brings
highly distinguished mathematicians
to Minneapolis for prolonged
periods, significantly enhancing
the creative environment of
the School. The visitors typically
give several lectures, including
a colloquium lecture and several
seminars, and the exchanges
of ideas with our faculty and
students often result in research
collaborations.
Professors:
Jim Douglas, Jr., Purdue University,
numerical analysis L.
Craig Evans, University of California,
Berkeley, partial differential
equations
Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University,
dynamical systems
Guy Henniart, University of
Paris XI, number theory
Thomas G. Kurtz, University
of Wisconsin, Madison, probability
theory
Jean Lannes, Ecole Polytechnique,
algebraic topology
Michel Ledoux, University Paul-Sabatier,
Toulouse, probability theory
Boris L. Rozovsky, University
of Southern California, probability
theory
Professor Douglas will give
a colloquium lecture about locally
conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian
methods for transient systems
and applications to porous media
problems. He will also give
two additional, more technical,
lectures which will be of interest
to people working in numerical
analysis of partial differential
equations and applied mathematics.
His visit will take place during
the month of May.
Professor Evans' visit takes
place during the second half
of March. He will give several
lectures about his work.
Professor Furstenberg will deliver
three lectures on the following
topics: Non Conventional Ergodic
Averages, Nilpotent Groups,
and the Long-Term Memory of
Dynamical Systems. His visit
will take place in February
2004.
Professor Henniart delivered
eight lectures on The Local
Langlands Correspondence for
GL(n) and Higher L-functions,
Local-Global Principles, and
Langlands' Conjectures, in late
September and throughout October
2003.
Professor Kurtz is visiting
the department and the Institute
for Mathematics and its Applications
(IMA) as a Distinguished Ordway
Professor for the entire 2003
- 4 academic year. He serves
as Chair of the Organizing Committee
for the IMA's current annual
scientific program on "Probability
and Statistics in Complex Systems:
Genomics, Networks, and Financial
Engineering".
Professor Lannes spoke on Sturm
sequences and H lower 2 of the
Hyperbolic homomorphism at the
Algebraic Topology Conference
which took place here September
19-21, 2003, and he also played
an important role in organizing
the conference. In addition,
he talked four times in the
topology seminar. He visited
for one month, September 15
- October 15, 2003.
Professor Ledoux delivered two
lectures. On November 13, 2003,
he spoke at the colloquium on
"The concentration of measure
phenomenon" and on November
14, 2003, he spoke in the probability
seminar on "Spectral measures
of orthogonal polynomial ensembles
and small deviation inequalities".
Professor Rozovsky will give
three lectures on stochastic
fluid mechanics, Wiener Chaos,
and financial mathematics. His
visit takes place from March
20 to April 20, 2004.
Continuing Postdocs and Visiting
Faculty
Assistant Professors:
Bernard Badzioch, Dunham Jackson
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University
of Notre Dame, algebraic topology
and homotopy theory)
Jesus Carrero (Ph.D. UCLA, partial
differential equations)
Jamylle Carter (Ph.D. UCLA,
image processing, computer graphics)
Mehdi Hakim-Hashemi (Shiraz
University, algebraic topology,
homotopy theory)
Junho Lee, Dunham Jackson Assistant
Professor (Ph.D. Michigan State
University, symplectic geometry
and Gromov-Witten invariants)
Christof Melcher, Dunham Jackson
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Max-Planck-Institute,
partial differential equations,
continuum mechanics, materials
science)
Simon Morgan (Ph.D. Rice
University, geometric measure
theory, harmonic maps)
Ralf Schmidt (Saarland
University, number theory, automorphic
forms, representation theory)
Jennifer Wagner (Ph.D. UCSD,
algebraic combinatorics)
Associate Professors:
Raja Sridharan (The Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research, commutative
algebra, algebraic geometry)
Professors:
Alexei Zhubr (Syktyvkar State
University, algebraic topology)
Postdoctoral Associates and
Postdoctoral Fellows, including
IMA Postdoctoral Associates
who participate in the teaching
activities:
Olga Brezhneva (Ph.D. Computing
Center, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, optimization, numerical
analysis)
Mihail Cocos (University of
British Columbia, differential
geometry, geometric analysis)
Chetan Gadgil (Ph.D. in chemical
engineering, University of Minnesota,
mathematical modeling in biology)
Balaji Gopalakrishnan (Ph.D.
Georgia Tech, algorithms, combinatorics
and optimization)
Marshall Hampton, NSF Postdoctoral
Fellow (dynamical systems, celestial
mechanics, image processing)
McKay Hyde, NSF Postdoctoral
Fellow (numerical solutions
of partial differential equations,
fast algorithms, spectral methods)
Huiqiang Jiang (Ph.D. Courant
Institute, partial differential
equations)
Jeremy Martin, NSF Postdoctoral
Fellow (Ph.D. UCSD, combinatorics
and algebraic geometry)
Greg Rampala (University of
Louisville, probability theory)
Tamon Stephen (Ph.D. University
of Michigan, Ann Arbour, combinatorics
and optimization)
Magdalena Stolarska (Ph.D. Northwestern
University, applied mathematics,
mathematical biology) Jun Zhao
(Ph.D. Texas A&M University,
numerical analysis)
Other Visiting Scholars:
Inkyung Ahn (Korea University,
partial differential equations)
Josep Alvarez (Universitat Politecnica
de Catalunya, Barcelona, commutative
algebra)
Hyeong Ohk Bae (Ajou University,
dynamical systems and partial
differential equations)
Yassine Boubendir (Universite
Paris 13, applied mathematics)
Jay Fillmore (Professor Emeritus,
UCSD, geometry)
Michael
hardy (Statistics, foundations
of probability theory)
Chetan Gadgil (Ph.D. in chemical
engineering, University of Minnesota,
mathematical modeling in biology)
Bosu Ko (Cheju University, partial
differential equations)
Boris Levitan* (Professor Emeritus,
Moscow State University, functional
analysis, differential equations)
Saadet Ozer (Institute of Science
and Technology, Istanbul, mathematical
physics)
Kimun Ryu (Korea University,
partial differential equations)
Thomas Schwartzbauer (Assoc.
Professor Emeritus, OSU, probability)
Tobias Weth (University of Giessen,
numerical analysis)
Thomas Wihler (ETH Zurich, numerical
analysis)
*Deceased,
April 4, 2004. An obituary will
appear in the next issue of
the newsletter.
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